Submit my CV...No I won’t
My good friend- Technopreneur Tobi Soyombo (check out his website here) inspired me to post this write up, which I have been nursing as a private affair for a long time now.
In academic employment, it is easy to see intimidating long pages CV of especially senior academics in the professorial cadre, with some ranging from 20 to 60. I find it quite uninteresting that employers request a minimum of 15 copies of such CVs and other accompanying documents.
I foresee an era where all that an employer requires is your research profile, which may be a URL to a research profile or unique identity that links to an online research profile. Many of such exist for free now and I have provided a brief list below:
Academia.edu- click to join
Google scholar- click to join
ORCID- click to join
ResearcherID- click to join
ResearchGate- click to join
Mendeley- click to join
Kudos- click to join
*Note that this is not an exhaustive list.
Any serious academic and/or researcher should begin to rethink online profile creation, as technology is taking center stage and only those who can evolve with the times, will survive.
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